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Rebellions. Word continued to seep out to the world last week of the great unpopularity of the war among humble people on both sides. Reports, never effectively denied, reached Hendaye of a revival of street fighting in Barcelona and other Leftist towns. Again & again stories came up to Madrid of abortive rebellions in Granada, Motril and Toledo. It was said that Italian troops, held in hearty disdain by Spanish Rightists since their disastrous defeat at Guadarrama in March (TIME, April 5), their poor showing at Bilbao, had been ordered to Toledo to remain in reserve for the eternally discussed final...
...Coryell and myself (I fear he will not like my doing it) but already there has crept into the newspapers some word of what he has been doing for his alma mater and I think it is better to give you the facts correctly than have them possibly seep into your office somewhat distorted. N. C. ABBOTT Superintendent...
...figure of $2,200,000,000 to an estimated $500,000,000, an amount, in the opinion of Mr. Eccles, "ample to finance further recovery and to maintain easy money conditions." Since the Treasury is now "sterilizing" gold imports by putting them in cold storage instead of letting them seep into the credit system (TIME, Jan. 4), the threat of a further expansion in excess reserves has been largely removed. And with the present total shaved to a figure within the reach of the standard tools of credit control-the rediscount rate and open market operations in government bonds-Chairman...
...injuries sustained when he was struck by an automobile; in Windber, Pa. Died, Samuel E. Hill, 70, onetime traveling salesman who 38 years ago in Boscobel, Wis., with John H. Nicholson, laid the foundation for the Christian Commercial Travelers' Association (Gideons); of heart disease; in Beloit,Wis. (seep...
...Moreover, after an unlined sea-level canal, with the passage of time, had drained down the fresh water now in the limestone, ocean water, particularly from the western end, would tend to enter the canal at high tide and to seep into the limestone along the canal banks and thus to contaminate its fresh waters." According to Mr. Slattery, the U. S. Geological Survey was of this opinion...